Racing Beat FB Pic
07-17-02, 04:49 PM
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Racing Beat FB Pic
I'm looking for a picture of a Racing Beat FB. It was supposed to have set some sort of speed record back in the 80's.
The pic I'm looking for shows a white FB with the Blue and Red Racing Beat logo. The backround is all icy and snowy.
If anyone has this pic, please post it. I had a copy but lost it when I had a hard drive crash a few months ago.
The pic I'm looking for shows a white FB with the Blue and Red Racing Beat logo. The backround is all icy and snowy.
If anyone has this pic, please post it. I had a copy but lost it when I had a hard drive crash a few months ago.
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07-17-02, 09:14 PM
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That's the one Manntis!!!
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As for the FB getting unstable at high speeds, that's mostly due to the aerodynamics of the stock front end. Adding an airdam to improve the airflow will help keep the front end planted to the road.
If you turn up your screen's sontrast and brightness and look hard at the area just in front of the front rims you'll notice a small spoiler. Oviously what kept the front end planted at high speed.
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As for the FB getting unstable at high speeds, that's mostly due to the aerodynamics of the stock front end. Adding an airdam to improve the airflow will help keep the front end planted to the road.
If you turn up your screen's sontrast and brightness and look hard at the area just in front of the front rims you'll notice a small spoiler. Oviously what kept the front end planted at high speed.
07-18-02, 02:24 AM
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It was a peripheral port 13B using a Weber 58 DSF carb. It had a cold air box made around the airfilter which was fed from the front of the car via a 6" duct. This supposedly added 3 mph to the cars top speed from not having one at all. There was an eccentric shaft mounted Hall-effect electronic ignition system. The engine redlined at 10000 RPM. There were problems with the rotor bearings getting destroyed at this speed. Remember the engine didn't just hit that number for a second or two. It held it near that high for a good amount of time. The first picture looks like the one that won the GTO class at the 1979 Daytona 24 hour race. If it is then that car had a 250 hp 12A engine. It is more likely Roger Mandeville's GTO class car from 1983. He raced both GTU and GTO in the early '80's. If it is the later car then it had a Lucas fuel injected PP 13B which produced 330 hp during qualifying at Daytona but 310 with a carb during the race. That was in GTU class. Sorry, That was too much info and got off the subject.
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07-18-02, 10:10 AM
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By the way, Roger Mandeville is still alive and kicking rotarys! He balanced my rotors and shaft for my car. I am in Texas and I flew to his shop to have this done, I pitted for him back in the late 80s on his GTU/GTO car. He and his wife are really nice people to deal with but just remember he is a pure racer, no crazy numbers on hp just the truth.
